Not really that uncommon. Especially if you are using a CM version that is higher than anything Samsung released for your phone. Trying to make some of the proprietary libs and drivers work on non Samsung software can be difficult for even the most experienced developers to sometimes not even possible so they have to use work arounds and open source stuff that doesn't always work the same. You can try some other camera apps that might be better like Camera Next or Open Camera.

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